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...Flat Pack Of Lies? IKEA denied a Swedish magazine's claim that the furniture maker's founder, Ingvar Kamprad, is the world's richest man, with a $53 billion treasure chest. The firm swatted away the accolade, pointing out that the famously frugal 77-year-old no longer owned the company. Still, he should be grateful he has the assembly instructions...
...richest universities in the Boston area stand to lose millions of dollars in campus-based financial aid under the proposal unveiled last month by the U.S. Department of Education...
...true love arrives with a Hungarian, Martin Hensler, and Gielgud's letters become saturated with a new, blissful sense of mutual dependence. It makes for a bitter end when, after Gielgud has seen most of his friends die, Hensler succumbs to a "really horrendous" battle with cancer. After the richest of lives, the nonagenarian's final letter movingly depicts the ravages of age: "Everything is such an effort and I have to be helped around still on my two wretched sticks ? I crawl about from one room to another and try not to let me down." His long life...
...just the chairman of Microsoft and the richest man in the world, with $46 billion in his bank account. Later this year the Queen of England will make Bill Gates a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his philanthropic work. TIME's Lev Grossman caught up with him on a speaking tour of college campuses...
...conduct a targeted campaign centering on a few major goals like science or Allston or whether to pursue a broader, more general campaign instead. While a general campaign would include individual schools’ goals to a greater extent, Harvard and outside fundraisers say its easier to interest the richest donors in initiatives or buildings that figure into Harvard’s long-term priorities...